The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon
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New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2019].
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Published
New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2019].
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viii, 426 pages ; 24 cm
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English

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"Five decades of writing on American literature"--Dust jacket.
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"Harold Bloom is our greatest living student of literature, "a colossus among critics" (The New York Times) and a "master entertainer" (Newsweek). Over the course of a remarkable career spanning more than half a century, in such best-selling books as The Western Canon and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, he transformed the way we look at the masterworks of western literature. Now, in the first collection devoted to his illuminating writings specifically on American literature, Bloom reflects on the surprising ways American writers have influenced each other across more than two centuries. The American Canon gathers five decades of Bloom's essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from several of his books, weaving them together into an unrivalled tour of the great American bookshelf. Always a champion of aesthetic power, Bloom tells the story of our national literature in terms of artistic struggle against powerful predecessors and the American thirst for selfhood. All of the visionary American writers who have long preoccupied Bloom--Emerson and Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville, and Dickinson, Faulkner, Crane, Frost, Stevens, and Bishop--are here, along with Hemingway, James, O'Connor, Ellison, Hurston, LeGuin, Ashbery and many others. Bloom's enthusiasm for these American geniuses is contagious, and he reminds us how these writers have shaped our sense of who we are, and how they can summon us to be yet better versions of ourselves." -- Amazon.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bloom, H., & Mikics, D. (2019). The American canon: literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon . The Library of America.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bloom, Harold and David Mikics. 2019. The American Canon: Literary Genius From Emerson to Pynchon. The Library of America.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bloom, Harold and David Mikics. The American Canon: Literary Genius From Emerson to Pynchon The Library of America, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bloom, Harold,, and David Mikics. The American Canon: Literary Genius From Emerson to Pynchon The Library of America, 2019.

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